Energy Atlas
Claims this atlas currently marks as unsettled or as tested and found false. A debated fact is one scholars hold competing positions on; a debunked one has been checked against the record and found not to hold. Both are kept in view rather than quietly smoothed over, with the reasoning that put each one where it stands.
14 statements marked Debated.
Aswan High Dam, Commissioned Year1968
Aswan High Dam, Power Stations and Infrastructure
Standing
Concerns Commissioned Year
Currently States 1968
The cited engineering profile dates construction 1960 to 1968; many references instead give completion as 1970 and the formal dedication as January 1971. What counts as completion is the open question recorded for this entry.
Source Power Technology
Concentrated Solar Power, Invented Year1866
Concentrated Solar Power, Technologies
Standing
Concerns Invented Year
Currently States 1866
Auguste Mouchout demonstrated the first solar steam engine using a parabolic trough in 1866; the first large commercial CSP plant, the 354 MW SEGS complex in California, began operating in 1984.
Source Wikipedia
Demand Response, Formulated Year2011
Demand Response, Concepts
Standing
Concerns Formulated Year
Currently States 2011
Utility demand-side management and interruptible-load programs predate formal terminology by decades; the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's 2011 definition is the widely cited formal standard.
Source Wikipedia
Energy Access, Formulated Year2011
Energy Access, Concepts
Standing
Concerns Formulated Year
Currently States 2011
Energy access as a development concept has no single coiner and was discussed in development economics literature for decades before the term was formalized as a tracked global metric. The UN Secretary-General's Sustainable Energy for All initiative, launched in 2011 and later folded into Sustainable Development Goal 7's 2030 universal-access target, is the widely cited turning point that made energy access a named global policy goal.
Source Wikipedia
Energy Return on Investment, Formulated Year1984
Energy Return on Investment, Concepts
Standing
Concerns Formulated Year
Currently States 1984
Net-energy analysis debates trace to the 1970s; Charles A. S. Hall's 1984 paper on the cover of the journal Science is the widely cited landmark that popularized EROI as a named metric.
Source Wikipedia
Energy Security, Formulated Year1973
Energy Security, Concepts
Standing
Concerns Formulated Year
Currently States 1973
Energy security has no single coiner; the 1973 oil crisis and OPEC embargo are the widely cited turning point that made it a central policy concern, with formal government treatments such as the 1987 US Energy Security report to the President following later.
Source Wikipedia
Feed-in Tariff, Formulated Year1978
Feed-in Tariff, Concepts
Standing
Concerns Formulated Year
Currently States 1978
The US Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act, signed in 1978, functioned as the first feed-in-tariff-like mechanism under another name; the first law formally named a feed-in tariff was Germany's 1990 Stromeinspeisungsgesetz (StrEG), so which year counts as the concept's true founding is a genuine naming dispute, not a settled date.
Source Wikipedia
Flywheel Energy Storage, Invented Year2011
Flywheel Energy Storage, Technologies
Standing
Concerns Invented Year
Currently States 2011
Flywheels have stored mechanical energy for millennia; the first grid-scale flywheel energy storage plant, Beacon Power's facility in Stephentown, New York, opened in 2011.
Source Wikipedia
Gas Turbine, Invented Year1791
Gas Turbine, Technologies
Standing
Concerns Invented Year
Currently States 1791
John Barber patented the first complete gas turbine design in 1791; the first turbine producing net power was built by Aegidius Elling in 1903.
Source Wikipedia
Grid Parity, Formulated Year2011
Grid Parity, Concepts
Standing
Concerns Formulated Year
Currently States 2011
The term's exact coinage date is not established; 2011 marks Germany's widely cited first achievement of utility-scale solar grid parity, the earliest clean date found in the research for this entity.
Source Wikipedia
Heat Pump, Invented Year1855
Heat Pump, Technologies
Standing
Concerns Invented Year
Currently States 1855
Lord Kelvin described the underlying theory in 1852; Peter von Rittinger built the first working heat pump in 1855 to 1857.
Source Wikipedia
Peat, Source ClassFossil fuel
Peat, Energy Sources
Standing
Concerns Source Class
Currently States Fossil fuel
Peat renews, but far more slowly than it is burned, so classifications differ on whether to group it with fossil fuels or with biomass. The International Peatland Society reports its use for energy being phased out in Ireland and Finland.
Source International Peatland Society
Renewable Energy Certificate, Formulated Year2001
Renewable Energy Certificate, Concepts
Standing
Concerns Formulated Year
Currently States 2001
Earlier European green-certificate trading schemes existed in the 1990s; the Texas REC Program is the earliest comprehensively documented US tracking system.
Source Wikipedia
Small Modular Reactor, Invented Year1950
Small Modular Reactor, Technologies
Standing
Concerns Invented Year
Currently States 1950
Modular reactor concepts date to the 1950s; the term small modular reactor entered common use in the late 1970s per the American Nuclear Society and was revived in wider policy use after a 2010 Wall Street Journal op-ed by US Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
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